How might I escape Unicode characters in a JSON string using JavaScript?

Question

JSON String:

{
  "id":31896,

  "name":"Zickey attitude - McKinley,
   La Rosi\u00e8re,
   21 ao\u00fbt 2006",
...

}

this causes an unterminated string in JavaScript.

My attempt at a solution is:

data.replace(/(\S)\1(\1)+/g, '');

or

data.replace(/\\u([0-9A-Z])/, '');

any ideas/solution?

last node is the problem, fyi.

(/\\u([0-9A-Z])/, '\1');

Lachlan Roche · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-13 16:04:35Z

1

Your problem is not the unicode escapes, but the unescaped newlines.

{
    "id":31896,
    "name":"Zickey attitude - McKinley,\nLa Rosi\u00e8re,\n21 ao\u00fbt 2006"
}

answered Mar 13, 2010 at 16:04

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how to solve it? i can not access a loop to select just the names and replace with \\n \\r what ever the newlines?

user293006 · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-13 16:50:30Z

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well, the error occures only when using jsonpretty :).

shame on me ;)

answered Mar 13, 2010 at 16:50

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